The Beowulf model for clusters of commodity computers[15, 17, 18] has become very popular over the last year, particularly amongst university research groups and other organisations less able to justify large procurements. The Beowulf concept is usually applied[16] to clusters of Personal Computers running Linux, but other platforms and operating systems can also be considered as providing simi...

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In this paper, we present a novel twist on the Beowulf cluster — the Bladed Beowulf. Designed by RLX Technologies and integrated and configured at Los Alamos National Laboratory, our Bladed Beowulf consists of compute nodes made from commodity off-the-shelf parts mounted on motherboard blades measuring 14.7 00 4.7 0.58. Each motherboard blade (node) contains a 633-MHz Transmeta TM5600TMCPU, 256...

As the size of crews continues to be reduced on modern warships, and at the same time the complexity of the tasks that warships have to handle continues to increase, the amount of computing power aboard a warship will have to increase dramatically. One of the most cost-effective ways of creating supercomputers is to cluster inexpensive off-theshelf commodity computers so that they act as a sing...

The interest of the scientific community in Beowulf clusters and Grid computing infrastructures is continuously increasing. The present work reports on a customization of Globus Software Toolkit 2 for a Grid infrastructure based on Beowulf clusters, aimed at analyzing and optimizing its performance. We illustrate the platform topology and the strategy we adopted to implement the various levels ...

Beowulf clusters are very popular because of the high computational power they can provide at reasonably low costs. However, the most pressing issues of today’s cluster solutions are the need for high availability and performance. Cluster systems are clearly prone to failures. Even if cover is provided with some probability c, there would be reconfiguration and/ or rebooting delays to resume th...